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CORRESPONDENCE Battle S t a r s Madison, Ct. To the Editors: In re "Washington Report: Prof. Kissinger" by Frank Getlein, 24 June 1977. The article on "Der /:reLier Heinrich" was a...
...5OG VERSE: Roy Scheele 583 A MORAL, NOT AN ECONOMIC OPTION: David O'Brien 508 ROOKS: Michael Zeik, Wayne Andrews, P. David Finks, Gerald J. McCarron, Raymond A. Schroth, Phillip Corwin GO0 JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Idanaging Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Assoclato Editor ANNIE Id...
...To the Editors: In "Floundering With Grass" [July 8] Marilyn Moorcroft makes mention of Giinter Grass's play The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising and Grass's specific advice as to the direction of the play...
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...Carter in the national interest, and their words should carry some weight with moderates...
...Do not make the face of 'The Boss' look like Brecht...
...Now Senator Strom Thurmond and his conservative colleagues are warming up for a repeat performance, with an expensive mass media campaign in the works, and old master Reagan is back on stage making threatening noises...
...has the right to intervene even after that date in order to defend the Canal's neutrality...
...That is why it is strange that so much excitement is being generated by the Panama Canal issue...
...As for Catholics who may be in doubt on the issue, we hope they will accept the reasoning of the American bishops when they state that the basic question involved in a new treaty is the acknowledgment in principle and in fact of Panamanian sovereignty over its own territory...
...This is not an unusual interpretation of the play...
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...historic role in this matter, whatever our contributions since that time, and it also sums up the general outlook of too many of the objectors to the new treaty...
...In Kappler's case the enemy was that ancient foe of his country, justice...
...That strategy was the master plan of the master race from the eruption of Hitler as a beer hall orator to the final catastrophe his worshipful countrymen brought upon themselves...
...The United States will have a permanent right to defend the neutrality of the Canal from any threat...
...Perhaps Mr...
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...In reality, the proposed treaties enhance U.S...
...With defeat in Vietnam rankling and the threat of Taiwan disengagement on the horizon, it is really no wonder that the Canal has become a great conservative cause...
...troops can remain in Panama for the balance of the century and that the U.S...
...His wife, in another act of compassion by the authorities, was allowed to visit him in Rome, left the hospital lugging a large suitcase, inside of which the mass murderer lay curled up like the corpse of one of his victims...
...security interests, and at relatively small cost, because the operation of the Canal at this point is more threatened by possible Panamanian disorders or even guerrilla warfare than by external threats, which in any case the U.S...
...senator was quoted as saying about the Panama Canal, "We stole it fair and square...
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...That pretty much matches our experience here...
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...Above all, however, the case for the new Canal arrangement rests on the immorality of trying to cling to the colonial status quo...
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...when you talk about Latin America, you are talking into a dead mike...
...In this matter, former President Ford and Henry Kissinger are backing Mr...
...Moreover, Kappler, as an SS officer, was also a good Nazi and he employed the archetypical Nazi combina, tion of whining for pity and using the pity granted to outwit, discomfort and defeat the persons granting the pity...
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...Nonetheless, President Carter is not without supporters on this issue...
...did very much what it wanted in Latin America...
...Transfer of the Canal to Panamanian control does Commom, 579 not take place until the end of this century...
...In short, the proposed pacts are strongly advantageous to the United States mso much so, in fact, that leftists and nationalist groups in Panama are planning to campaign against them on the ground that too many concessions have been made to Washington...
...This is not to say that Mr...
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...The article on "Der /:reLier Heinrich" was a rather keen hatchet job on one of our great nonheroes...
...By whining about his health, Kappler got himself transferred to the Celio hospital in Rome and used his whined-for act of mercy as the lever against those who had shown him mercy...
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...In contrast to this view, one conservative U.S...
...One way or the other, the Canal issue promises to liven things up in the months ahead...
...AI Hair not only commanded a rifle company in the Korean War, and won a couple of Silver Stars, but he also commanded a rifle battalion, and later a brigade of the 1st U.S...
...Moorcroft can only surmise as to why this advice was given since The Boss .is obviously modeled after Brecht and in its final analysis " . . . is a painful indictment [of Brecht] by Grass...
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...That about sums up the U.S...
...Serious foreign policy commentators have for years pointed out the deep resentment throughout Latin America at our exploitive role in Panama, and they have spelled out in detail the likelihood and consequences of serious disorders in Panama if the new treaties are not confirmed by the Senate...
...000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE CANAL Someone once wrote that the American people would do anything for Latin America except read about it...
...For the uninformed and the nationalistic, this is one of those 4th of July, Americanas-apple-pie issues which bring out the worst in us...
...During his almost successful try for the Republican nomination, Ronald Reagan ran the issue up the flagpole and saluted it almost nightly, and he got great mileage out of it...
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...civilians in government jobs in the Canal are guaranteed their jobs until retirement...
...On second thought, though, maybe it is not surprising that the Canal can raise high blood pressure from Maine to California...
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...One New York critic recently capsulized the play as "Giinter Grass's indictment of Brecht . . . . "while another calls the play "Giinter Grass's attack on Bertolt B r e c h t . . . " Is it any wonder Grass does not want The Boss to look (Continued on page 606) NEWS & VIEWS: 578 CORRESPONDENCE: 5T9 EDITORIAl.: 579 WASRINGTON REPORT: Return o f t h e N a t i v e : Frank Getlein 580 VIOLENCE IN THE STREETS: Brian Wicker 582 END OF TRE CONCORDAT.: Margo Hmnmond 584 A NE1W SECRETARIAT: Abigail McCarthy 58G GOD'S EYE VIEW: James A. Ralph 587 'ON TRE ORDINATION OF WOMEN': An Exchange o f Views: 580 PRESS: A T a l e o f Midnight: Thomas Powers 594 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
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...Eisenhower rose from command of a peace time battalion (Ike was never under fire), to be the Supreme Commander, with five star rank in Europe in WW II, "with no military experience at all between those two ranks...
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...warships will have a permanent right to transit the Canal expeditiously and without conditions--although in fact the military significance of the Canal has become largely nil...
...These groups are particularly disturbed by the fact that U.S...
...In Kappler's case, he had been safely contained for 30 years in a military prison on Gaeta, an island halfway between Naples and Rome, a formidable place to escape from...
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...Here we agree with the American Catholic bishops who in 1976 collectively said that "a moral imperative exists to fashion a new treaty which respects the territorial integrity, sovereignty and economy of Panama, and dissolves the vestiges of a relationship which more closely resembles the colonial politics of the nineteenth century than the realities of an interdependent world of sovereign and equal states...
...WASHINGTON REPORT RETURN OF THE NATIVE It wasn't really a shock that the man described as a "former" SS lieutenant colonel, Herbert Kappler, had escaped from the Rome military hospital where he was serving a life sentence given him in a post-World War II trial for murdering 335 Italian civilians in 1944...
...Indeed, President Carter will be lucky if he wins this one...
...An anachronism indeed, and the sooner we are rid of it, the better...
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...Two treaties are proposed, one guaranteeing the permanent neutrality of the Canal and the other involving details about its operation until the year 2000...
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...the Army's elite shock division in three wars), in Vietnam, and won the Distinguished Service Cross, for conspicuous bravery under fire...
...The Canal issue brings back pictures of Teddy Roosevelt and the big stick and evokes memories of happier days when the U.S...
...Getlein is unaware that Gen...
...however I respectfully take exception to the derogatory comment about a gallant soldier[ Gen...
...The terms of the 1903 Treaty acknowledge the principle of Panamanian sovereigmy, but prevent its exercise in any form in the Canal Zone...
...Carter's case on the Canal is weak--far from it...
...Without rehearsing the history or terms of the treaty, we simply would affirm that the moral, legal and political realities of international life today render the 1903 Treaty an anachronism...
...In the first place, Kappler was a good soldier, as Germans understand that term: escaping when captured by the enemy is part of a good soldier's duty...
Vol. 104 • September 1977 • No. 19
